Tidbit Jr.

My two cents: I'm of the school of thought that things should be earned in-game, but that applies more to single-player games where items have actual effects.

The best comrpomise for this new stuff would probably be, as people have suggested, to make the generic pieces available to everyone, and requiring an unlock on signature pieces.

Even then, not everyone's going to agree.

Er, do you mean to say the fitness +Run/Fly auto-power, called Swift?

Anybody remember the old mention of that Egyptian EAT concept?

What if that happened in Praetoria's history, and Hamidon upset some Egyptian tomb that was never touched on Primal Earth?

Back when mission dropping was weekly, someone asked this; the result was somewhere between several years and several decades. At least, if memory serves.

With dropping every three days, you probably will see a little over than half of that shaved off. But again, it's a long time.

While I wouldn't say I agree with some of Invisobill's stronger points, such as saying that the game only has about two years left of life, I do agree with him that the booster packs seem to be getting a bit out of hand.

In the overall, I'd say it's not too bad as long as they don't start locking out powersets or zones based on booster packs.

Techbot Alpha: views: agreeable.
Support: concurrent; traditionalists superior.
However: full support: you have mine.

To clarify: Praetorians: not.
None-the-less: epic: in the best sense.

inb4 having to side with Hamidon or Nictus as polar opposites

I haven't done the task force(s) involving Riesch.... Rich... Nazi-Statesman, but I don't like the idea that he is now the 5th's leader. It should have always been Requiem, if you ask me.

Ah, yes, thank you. That one is pretty popular, too, among tech-origin, so how could I forget it? I added it to the summary.

((tl;dr pg2))

Summary of my stand: "alien" isn't an origin, it's a backstory. Your power source itself is your origin.

Summary of origins (as per my opinion)...

Natural: everyone of your species can do it, even if it takes training to do so
Mutation: modified before birth (usually unintentional)
Science: modified after birth (usually intentional)
Magic: a diety, magical being, or natural force can be tapped into
Technology: something not a part of your body is providing the powers for you, and isn't magical or you are a construct and your body is made of technology

Sure, there are some grey areas: if someone knows magic that anyone could learn, that may be Natural-Magic; if your power armor has a god trapped inside of it, that could be Techno-Magic; if you were a mutant but had to get special treatment for your powers to get stronger, you are possibly Science-Mutation.

But usually one will supercede the other. I'd say it's just a matter of how far from Natural you are. Eg: if you have the technomagic, technology is more common than magic, so go with that. If you have mutation and science, mutation was closer to your natural state, so Science. Et cetera.

As for Kheldians, I say it's taken from the point-of-view of the alien; not the human, not the new merged-consciousness.

((Trick Arrow keeps coming up as a possible base for a blaster secondary so that archery blasters have something thematic to match up with. In fact, there was a thread a couple of weeks ago, but it's probably dead by now.))

Anyways, I support a trick arrow-based ("based" - not "port") secondary set for blasters. Good suggestion, Wavicle, with of course the critique that the melee attacks come sooner as already stated.

This is eerie: I opened this thread in a new tab, did exactly as you said, but instead of filing a bug report just started to log out and not deal with it; then I open this tab as it's logging out and read what you say, only to go "OH NO WONDER!"

You just saved me three days of waiting for mission drop!*

And now on-topic: yeah, it should at least mention in the mission briefing to do "take out the leader in the area" or something. It leads you to thinking that it's a ghostable mission.

Edit: * ... I'm lazy, okay! >_>